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 428 A REVISED LIST OF THE BRITISH CARYOPHYLLACE^, Willk. d Lange, Prodr. iii. p. 161 ; Enql. d Prantl, Natiirl. Pfl. iii. abt. 1 b, p. 85 ; Pari. Fl. Ital. ix. p. 610. 62 [259] . S. ARVENSis Linn. Sp. Plant, (ed. 1) p. 440 (1753). XIX. SPERGULARIA.— P^rs. Syn. Plant, i. p. 504 ; Benth. d Hook. Gen. Plant, i. p. 152 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. p. 732 ; Willk. d Lange, Prodr. iii. p. 162 ; Pari. Fl. Ital. ix. p. 615 ; Eobinson, in Proc. Amer. Acad. xxix. p. 309 (1894). Species Monotocce. Species Polytoc(E. p. 274 (1860). XX. POLYCARPON.— Lo^/. Eesa Spansk. Land. p. 7 ; Benth. d Hook. Gen. Plant, i. p. 152 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. p. 735 ; Willk. d Lange, Prodr. iii. p. 162 ; Engl, d Prantl, Natiirl. PH. iii. abt. 1 b, p. 86 ; Pari. Fl. Ital. ix. p. 623. 67 [264] . P. TETRAPHYLLUM Limi. Sp. Plant, (ed. 2) p. 131 (1762). Notes and Remarks on the Foregoing List. 7. Silene inflata. — Tbe reasons for keeping up tbis old name are given in extenso elsewhere. Prof. Ascberson points out that if the oldest specific name is to be retained, the name of the common bladder campion should be Silene venosa, i.e., Cucuhalus venosus Gilib. [1782] ; but I find that a still earlier name is Cucuhalus angustifolius Mill., Gard. Diet. ed. viii. (1768). 9. S. gallica. — This is much more widely distributed than the plant known as S. anglica, and is the one selected by Rohrbacb as the type of the species. 13. S. italica. — I have received living specimens of this plant from Hythe, in Kent ; and it seems to occur in other localities in sufficient quantity to be considered as a British plant. It was long ago recorded by Peete under the name of S. pateris. 19. Coronaria Flos-cuculi. — The genus Coroyiaria was much more clearly defined than LycJinis, and it is to be regretted that Linnaeus did not keep it up in Species Plaritarum. It has, however, been revived by Alexander Braun, and taken up by Garcke in the successive editions of his Flora von Deutschland. 21. Moenchia quaternella. — The genus was founded by Ehrhart on the Linnean Sagina erecta. As tbis name was given to it to dis- tinguish it from S. decumhens, and as, moreover, Ehrhart was quite justified in choosing a suitable specific name, there is no occasion to displace it by Smith's much later name of M. erecta. 23. Cerastium piimilum. — Mr. Arthur Bennett is disposed to regard this plant as an endemic species. Though Belgian speci-
 * 63 [260] . S. RUBRA Pers. 1. c. p. 504 (1805).
 * 64 [261] . S. SALiNA Presl, Fl. Cecbica, p. 95 (1819).
 * 65 [262] . S. MEDIA Pers. 1. c. p. 504 (1805).
 * 66 [263] . S. RUPicoLA Lehel, in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cberb. vii.